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New For You - Biographies - July 2025

New biographies and memoirs of the famous, the interesting and everyday people.

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  • I Dream of Joni

    a Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots

    Alford, Henry, 1962-
    "This stylish consideration of the folk-rock-jazz legend by magazine veteran Alford is...thoughtful and informed.... [A] heartfelt reconsideration of an iconic artist." -Kirkus
    Book, 2025New York : Gallery Books, 2025. — 781.64 MIT
  • The definitive biography of the greatest photographer of modern times.
    Book, 2024London : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2024. — 779 CAR
  • The Novel Life of Jane Austen is a beautifully illustrated graphic biography that brings to life the remarkable story of one of Britain's most beloved literary icons.
    Graphic Novel, 2025London : Greenfinch, 2025. — 823.7 AUS
  • John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name to rival that of Blake, Byron, Wordsworth or Shelley - and a life to match.
    Book, 2004London : Picador, 2004. — 821.7 CLA
  • A unique and decidedly un-celebrity memoir, by turns affecting, funny, uncanny, and unforgettable. A remarkable and an unforgettable read.
    Book, 2024London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024. — 791.43028 BRO
  • A fast-paced, tender-hearted rock 'n' roll memoir for the ages, Mike Campbell's Heartbreaker is part rags-to-riches story and part raucous, seat-of-the-pants adventure, recounting Campbell's life and times as lead guitarist of Tom Petty and the…
    Book, 2025London : Constable, 2025. — 781.66 CAM
  • When the Going Was Good

    An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines

    Carter, Graydon
    Graydon Carter's lively recounting of how he made his mark as one of society's most talented editors and shapers of culture.
    Book, 2025New York : Penguin Press, 2025. — 070.41 CAR
  • From a childhood in rural Piopio, Jenny-May Coffin grew up to achieve international success as a Silver Fern and then began a stellar career on radio and television as a sports commentator and morning presenter.
    Book, 2025Auckland, New Zealand : HarperCollins Publishers, 2025. — 791.45 CLA
  • An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.
    Book, 2025London : The Bodley Head, 2025. — 956.101 SUL
  • Bellissima

    An Australian-Italian Affair

    Dinnigan, Collette, 1965-
    Collette Dinnigan is one of Australia's most well known and loved fashion designers.
    Book, 2024Cammeray, New South Wales : Simon & Schuster Australia, 2024. — 746.92 DIN
  • This "profound...comic...[and] unconventional" (The New York Times) family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the…
    Book, 2025New York : Scribner, 2025. — 623.445 MER
  • The Prosecutor

    One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

    Fairweather, Jack
    A gripping, definitive account of one man's battle to reckon with the horror of the Holocaust.
    Book, 2025London : WH Allen, 2025. — 364.138 BAU
  • My Life in a Garden

    Love, Loss and Mulch : a Single Dad Seeks Answers in Nature

    Gorham, Carl
    When TV comedy writer Carl Gorham moved out of London to the country with his wife and young daughter in 2005, he swopped a small, terraced cottage with a thirty-foot garden for a large, detached house in Norfolk with three acres. An extraordinary…
    Book, 2025[Place of publication not identified] : Ireton Press, 2025. — 635 GOR
  • 'Randy Newman is our great master of American song and storytelling' Bruce Springsteen.
    Book, 2024London : Constable, 2024. — 781.64 NEW
  • A smart, funny, and refreshing memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182.
    Book, 2025New York : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2025] — 781.66 HOP
  • Descending Fire

    the Story Behind the Stories

    Jordan, Sherryl, 1949-2023
    'By turns joyful, despairing, resolute, heart-breaking - Sherryl's memoir is a revelation.' - Tessa Duder.
    Book, 2025Auckland, New Zealand : David Bateman Ltd, 2025. — 823.914 JOR
  • John & Paul

    a Love Story in Songs

    Leslie, Ian, 1972-
    A majestic biography of two young geniuses who merged their talents to create one of the greatest bodies of music in history.
    Book, 2025London : Faber, 2025. — 781.66 LEN
  • Makereti stands at the foot of her maunga and pays careful attention to tohu. With her tupuna at her elbow she casts around for home, meets taonga in museums, and writes her way towards her father. She walks through the darkness with others, in awe…
    Book, 2025Wellington, New Zealand : Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2025. — 824.92 MAK
  • Record-breaking swimmer Becca Mann shares how she turned her failed Olympic dreams into making history as the first-and only-person to ever swim the 21-hour Maui Nui Tri-Channel Crossing Record.
    Book, 2025Bend, Oregon : Blue Star Press, [2025] — 797.21 MAN
  • This book brings together for the very first time the journals, letters and short stories that Mary Shelley wrote while living in Bath from 1816 to 1817.
    Book, 2025[London] : Manderley Press, 2025. — 823.7 SHE